Benjamin Williams

Benjamin Williams (1 January 1751-20 July 1814) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NC 10) from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795 (preceding Nathan Bryan) and Governor of North Carolina from 23 November 1799 to 6 December 1802 (succeeding William Richardson Davie and preceding James Turner) and from 1 December 1807 to 12 December 1808 (succeeding Nathaniel Alexander and preceding David Stone).

Biography
Benjamin Williams was born in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1751, and he served in the Provincial Congress and as a Continental Army colonel during the American Revolutionary War. He went on tos erve in the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1795 and as Governor from 1799 to 1802 and from 1807 to 1808, and he died in 1814.